Deep red led light exposure in the morning makes your eyes work better for a while

Three minutes of 670nm exposure in the morning appears to make the eyesight of humans over 40 years old better for a week, according to Imperial College London. The improvement is shown in cone-mediated colour contrast thresholds, tested in people from 37 to 70 years old in this research. Improvements have been seen before, using light ...

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40V bi-direction GaN transistor for power rail switching

Chinese GaN device maker Innoscience is introducing a bi-directional transistor amongest its more conventional devices. Called INN40W08, it is a 40V device that can block in both directions (unlike single silicon mosfets where two are needed for bi-directional operation). Nominally it has a gate, two drains and no source. The company sees it being used in ...

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In-field programmer gets external branding options

Segger is offering custom versions of its Flasher Portable Plus stand-alone in-field programmer, “enabling corporations to supply their service technicians with a branded tool”, it said, Visual custom options include injection moulding the case in different coloured plastic and printign logos and slogans on the outside. The display content, for example changing the splash screen, ...

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Asahi Kasei green hydrogen generator to slash costs

Asahi Kasei, the Japanese materials and healthcare conglomerate, plans to market a generator for making green hydrogen at a third of the current cost in 2025, reports the Nikkei.  Hydrogen generators, each capable of producing 10MW, are already being tested. The company is working on linking systems to make 100MW units. The generators use electrolysis ...

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Digi-Key, Seeed Studio, Machinechat introduce private LoRaWAN-in-a-Box

Digi-Key Electronics is partnering with Seeed Studio and Machinechat for what it describes as the industry’s first private LoRaWAN-in-a-Box solutions for affordable and secure IoT. It’s aimed at IoT developers and engineers, and it combines Seeed’s Studio SenseCAP gateways and sensors with the Machinechat JEDI Pro Seeed Studio Edition software. The aim is to quickly deploy ...

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Women In Defence 2021 awards celebrate female engineers

The prestigious Women in Defence Awards have been held at the Guildhall in central London, and engineers from Leonardo and BAE Systems were among the winners. Sarah Cooper, a Senior Hardware Engineer at Leonardo, for example, was announced as the winner of the ‘STEM in Defence’ award. She was selected from among some of the ...

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SL Power launches mission-critical AC/DC power supplies

SL Power  Electronics (SLPE), AC/DC power conversion specialist for mission-critical applications, has launched the NGB SERIES of high power density convection rated AC-DC power supplies. Intended for applications including medical, industrial, audio broadcast and LED lighting the NGB series is available in multiple formats and power levels including 250W, 425W, 660W and 1200W (with 150W & ...

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Flex Power Modules adds higher-power variants

Flex Power Modules has added two new higher power variants to its successful through-hole, digital BMR492 range of regulated, isolated bus converters. The BMR4920100/001 is rated at 10.4 V/67.4 A output over a 40-60 V input (80 V/100 ms), and can also deliver up to 950 W peak for less than 1 second. The BMR4920300/864 ...

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